Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!primerd!ENI!ENH!TIM
From: TIM@ENH.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Curses erase char question
Message-ID: <108300012@ENH.Prime.COM>
Date: 29 Oct 90 23:21:21 GMT
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Nf-From: ENH.Prime.COM!TIM    Oct 29 09:48:00 1990


Seems like curses knows that your backspace is a ^?, but to print that at your
terminal does nothing but print "^?" instead of backspacing like you want.
Looking up erasechar() in a curses reference, it says:

erasechar(); /* return user's erase character */

Which is exactly what it is doing ... your OS will use a ^? as a backspace, (no
doubt catches the keypress and translates it into a backspace it can make use
of), but this does not apply to an application program ... try saving the
current backspace character at the beginning of your program, set it to the
default (probably ^h) for the length of the program, then restoring it upon
exiting. Hope this helps ...


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